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Daily Online Testing Boosts College Performance and Reduces Achievement Gaps, Study Shows
More low-income students are attending college than ever before, but many of them are ill prepared for the challenges of higher learning. Now University of Texas at Austin researchers are finding ways to level the higher-education playing field with a new online learning model.
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Milner Wins Inventor of the Year Award
The biomedical engineering professor was honored for his development of light-based therapeutic and diagnostic procedures that help doctors detect diseases like glaucoma and heart disease. [Video]
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UT Austin President Powers Meets with Congressional Leaders on Sequestration
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers and other higher education officials will meet today with congressional leaders to discuss federal sequestration’s damaging effect on university research and possible solutions as Congress negotiates spending levels for 2014.
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Engineering Professor Thomas Milner Named UT Austin’s Inventor of the Year
Researcher’s findings help detect and diagnose threatening illnesses.
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Tower Goes Dark for Longhorn Lights Out
Longhorn Lights Out ask the university community to turn off lights, computers, and other equipment when leaving campus buildings for the weekend on Friday, Nov. 22. In support of Longhorn Lights Out, the Tower will not be lit from sunset Nov. 22 to dawn on Nov. 23.
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TACC to Deploy Maverick for Interactive, Remote Visualization and Data Analysis
New system will make sense of Big Science Data for researchers in the U.S. open science community
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High School Students Forge Stronger, More Positive Friendships in Shared Classes, Study Shows
Teenagers continue to roam in cliques in high school, as they have for generations. Yet according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin and Michigan State University, high school students are not choosing friends from certain categories, such as “jocks,” “goths” or “A-listers.” Instead, they are forging friendships in the types…
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UT Austin’s Response to YCT Decision to Cancel Event
Statement from The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin honors the right of free speech for all students. We welcome the Young Conservatives of Texas’ decision to cancel Wednesday’s event and look forward to the group being part of a thoughtful campus discussion about immigration.
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UT Researchers Use Simple Scaling Theory to Better Predict Gas Production in Barnett Shale Wells
*Editor’s note: The fourth paragraph in the earlier version of this release has been removed. AUSTIN, Texas Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a simple scaling theory to estimate gas production from hydraulically fractured wells in the Barnett Shale.
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President Powers Responds to YCT: Immigration Event is not in Line with UT Austin Values
Statement from UT Austin President Bill Powers
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Why JFK Died in Dallas
A new book by a journalism professor documents the hysteria and fear that culminated in Kennedy’s assassination 50 years ago. Read an excerpt and see archival JFK photographs.
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Tower Orange for McCombs Accounting Team
The university will celebrate the McCombs School of Business student team who placed first in an accounting case competition. The Tower will be lit entirely orange Nov. 18.
